Technical Lead (Observability Architecture)

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead with strong Observability Architecture experience to support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack.

Plan and technically lead migration front runners Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces and logs using OpenTelemetry Coordinate with SAP LoBs, BTP, GCO, SRE and Operations teams Identify feature gaps, risks and architectural blockers Prepare architecture documents, decision logs, best practices and migration-readiness reports Present progress and recommendations to technical and management stakeholders Own end-to-end solution design, including technical decisions, gap/risk analysis and documentation Lead teams and workstreams, coordinating across platform, SRE, operations and application teams

5+ years of hands-on experience in observability architecture and implementation At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, including Collector configuration, receivers/processors/exporters, pipelines, routing and deployment patterns Proficiency in designing telemetry flows across all three signals: metrics, logs and traces Production-level implementation experience with Prometheus and Grafana (beyond dashboard-only usage) Background in cloud-native monitoring, telemetry routing and observability platforms Proven experience leading complex technical migrations, ideally from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynami